Tachelhit language
Tachelhit is a Berber language (Tachelhit: Taclḥit - ⵜⴰⵛⵍⵃⵉⵜ - تشلحيت) spoken by the Shilha people. There are 7,823,000 speakers worldwide, the majority in Morocco, where there are more than 7,000,000 speakers.
| Tachelhit | ||||
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| Taclḥit - ⵜⴰⵛⵍⵃⵉⵜ - تشلحيت | ||||
| Native to | Morocco; immigrant communities in France, Belgium, Canada and elsewhere | |||
| Region | Anti-Atlas, Souss, Draa, Ihahan, western part of High Atlas | |||
| Ethnicity | Iclḥiyn - Isusiyn | |||
| Native speakers | 7 to 8 millions worldwide.[1] (date missing) | |||
| Language family | Afro-Asiatic
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| Writing system | Berber Latin alphabet, Berber Arabic alphabet, Tifinagh | |||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-2 | shi | |||
| ISO 639-3 | shi | |||
 Tachelhit-speaking areas | ||||
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Tachelhit Language Media
Young man speaking Tachelhit, recorded in Cuba.
Percentage of Shilha speakers per region according to 2004 census
Communes or municipalities where Tachelhit is majority in Morocco (year 2014)
Shilha written in Arabic script: an 18th-century manuscript of al-Ḥawḍ by Mḥmmd Awzal.
Speech sample in Shilha (Chelha).
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This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Tachelhit language edition. |
